DriftEngine

Networking · type

MessageSink

Where a drained message goes.

Explained in Networking and rollback.

type MessageSink = (from: PeerId, message: Uint8Array) => void
import type { MessageSink } from '@driftengine/network';

In depth

The bytes are borrowed, not given: the array is the transport's and may be reused as soon as this returns. A sink that needs to keep one copies it. That is the same contract MessageQueue and the render passes use, and it is what keeps a drain allocation-free.